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Richland taxpayers headed into a perfect storm
SOMEONE in Richland County had better set some priorities about taxing and spending before there’s a tax revolt. And they’d better do it now.- 12:14 AM
SOMEONE in Richland County had better set some priorities about taxing and spending before there’s a tax revolt. And they’d better do it now.- 12:14 AM
COMEDIAN Bill Cosby and Atlanta Superior Court Judge Marvin Arrington are right to admonish African-Americans to take responsibility for themselves and change their circumstances.- 1:46 AM
MANY HAVE OPINED about what Sen. Barack Obama’s phenomenal win in the Democratic presidential primary and his possible ascension to the presidency mean to this nation.- 12:14 AM
WHEN I HEARD about the controversy over an Atlanta judge booting white lawyers out of his courtroom so he could give a closed-door, in-your-face tongue lashing to black defendants in his courtroom, I immediately understood why he did it.- 12:16 AM
WITH GAS prices rising above $4 a gallon nationally, people are searching for ways to soften the blow to their pockets. While some are trading in gargantuan SUVs for smaller, more efficient cars — cars I can see around at a stop light, thank goodness — others are parking their vehicles and opting to ride the bus or other transit.- 1:47 AM
SOUTH Carolinians waiting on state leaders to give them something to celebrate have again been left disappointed, much like the fans of the fictitious “Mudville nine.”- 12:16 AM
THANKS TO the United Way of the Midlands and its partners, a number of local families and individuals escaped the tax season without having their pockets picked by predators offering instant-refund schemes.- 1:49 AM
I WISH THE people from state Rep. Grady Brown’s district who have called me complaining about payday lending — and their representative’s support of it — would call him instead.- 12:13 AM
REGARDLESS OF how Columbia City Council votes today on two controversial issues — a total smoking ban and a public-private parking project in Five Points — it’s going to leave some people unhappy.- 12:15 AM
WHAT A difference a few days make in the battle to regulate payday lenders. Oh, and a few dollars — tens of thousands of them, really — might make a difference too.- 12:15 AM
